Eye Contact

Jenny Kendler’s Birds Watching, a sculpture with 100 eyes, compels you with its unwavering gaze to take a hard look at the terrible consequences of climate change

- Aneesha Bhadri

There is an installation on the Storm King Art Centre grounds that stands tall and stares back at you. If you rush past it, it looks like an attractive colourful assortment of bubbles or a psychedelic cluster of glossy disks floating in mid-air. If you stop and look, several eyes pin you down with their gaze, some baleful, some bewildered and others dazed. You may find yourself mesmerised, unable to walk away from their h